Mike McCarty wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> Saying the value of a character doesn't have much meaning without >> defining >> its encoding. The │ character is actually 0xE29482 in UTF8 while | is >> 0x7c. > > Ou contraire. In this particular case, the *only* thing one has is > it's code. The OP doesn't know what character set it is from. Maybe he doesn't...but there are ways to divine what charset a given code is. >> FWIW, it is also 0xA278 in big5. :-) > > You are confusing graphic representations with codes. Nope. I know the difference between a glyph and the code point. If you have a file containing 0xA278 and display it in a terminal operating in big5 you will get the same glyph as if you would if you had a file containing 0xE29482 and were working in UTF8. Regards, Ed -- If you didn't have most of your friends, you wouldn't have most of your problems. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
